Tailscale is a WireGuard-based mesh VPN that builds a secure peer-to-peer overlay network (a tailnet) between a user's devices and servers. It authenticates through existing identity providers and supports device posture rules, ACLs, and MagicDNS. Clients are open source while the coordination server is proprietary; the open-source Headscale project offers a self-hosted alternative control plane. It is popular for homelabs, startups, and AI infrastructure connectivity, with a free Personal plan and paid plans from $6/user/month.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2019
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Zero-trust network access
- Mesh VPN
- Yes
- Clientless
- No
- Device posture
- Yes
- SSO integration
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- No
- Open-source
- No
- Free tier
- Yes: Free Personal plan: up to 6 users, unlimited devices, non-commercial use